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Staffed
- verb - provide with staff; "This position is not always staffed"
- serve on the staff of; "The two men staff the reception desk"
Stagged
- verb - attend a dance or a party without a female companion
- give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam"
- watch, observe, or inquire secretly
Stained
- verb - color for microscopic study; "The laboratory worker dyed the specimen"
- color with a liquid dye or tint; "Stain this table a beautiful walnut color"; "people knew how to stain glass a beautiful blue in the middle ages"
- having a coating of stain or varnish
- make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
- marked or dyed or discolored with foreign matter; "a badly stained tablecloth"; "tear-stained cheeks"
- produce or leave stains; "Red wine stains the table cloth"
Stalked
- verb - follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"
- go through (an area) in search of prey; "stalk the woods for deer"
- having or growing on or from a peduncle or stalk; "a pedunculate flower"; "a pedunculate barnacle is attached to the substrate by a fleshy foot or stalk"
- walk stiffly
Stalled
- verb - cause an airplane to go into a stall
- cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"
- come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"
- deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"
- experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
- put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse"
Stamped
- verb - affix a stamp to; "Are the letters properly stamped?"
- crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract the juice"
- destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny"
- form or cut out with a mold, form, or die; "stamp needles"
- raise in a relief; "embossed stationery"
- reveal clearly as having a certain character; "His playing stamps him as a Romantic"
- to mark, or produce an imprint in or on something; "a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps"
- treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European"
- walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots"
Stapled
- verb - secure or fasten with a staple or staples; "staple the papers together"
Starred
- verb - be the star in a performance
- feature as the star; "The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man"
- mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences"
- marked with an asterisk; "the starred items"
Started
- verb - Began
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object; "begin a cigar"; "She started the soup while it was still hot"; "We started physics in 10th grade"
- begin or set in motion; "I start at eight in the morning"; "Ready, set, go!"
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job; "Take up a position"; "start a new job"
- bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"
- bulge outward; "His eyes popped"
- get going or set in motion; "We simply could not start the engine"; "start up the computer"
- get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack"
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way; "The novel begins with
Starved
- verb - be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
- deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"
- deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"
- die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
- extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
- have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
- suffering from lack of food